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No. 381,020-j "UNITED STATES 7 PATENT' oma.;

BRUNQKNIFFLEB, on CLEVELAND, oHio.

FLouR-DRESSER.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent -N o. 381,020, datedApril 10,1888.v

Appncation fusa November-24,1856. seal No. 219.5278. (No model.)

T all whom/ it concern: Be it known that I,- BRUNO KNIFFLER, of

Cleveland, in dthe county'of Cuyahoga andv VState of Ohio, h'ave invented new Yand useful Improvements in' Flour-Dressers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

, which form a part of this specification.

' This invention relates to certain'new and useful improvements in the construction o Hour-dressers. l

Heretofore a class of reels known as common six-ribbed reels has been in almost universal use' among manufacturers of flour',

and, these reels being hexagonal, the method of cloth is very imperfect.

' the cylindrical reel, in which a far superior bolting action is produced by letting the chop.y

gently slide over the face ofthe cloth.'

My improved reelbelongs to the latter class; and the objectl of my invention is to provide a construction in whichthe chop is brought in sliding contact with as large as possible an extent of bolting-cloth, sc as to increase the capacity of the reel and improve the quality of the. material bolted, and which, furthermore, is especially adapted to permitthe conversion of the old-style six-ribbed reel into the' improved class to which my reel belongs, so as to make the transition 'less costly to the miller. Y Y.

To this end myinvention consists in the general construction and arrangement of the parts, and also in the .peculiar construction of buckets rigidly secured to the heads Within the reel and arranged in proximity'to the bolting-cloth, by means of which in the rotation of the reel the chop is made to slide over the bolting-cloth on the descending side of the kreel as well as on the ascending side, and which also permits the chop to readily collect at the bottom of the'reel..l

vand held in place.

, s Figure y1 is avert-ical centralcrosssection of myy improved flour-dresser. Fig. 2 is vau enlarged vertical cross-section showingr the .F1a ss l3 is a central longitudlnal section of thesame.

method of securing the parts together.-

yInl the/drawings, A? represents thezshaft, which is, in the usual way, supported upon proper bearings, (not sh`own,) andB are ay se-l ries of 1ag-screws, by means of which the hoops 6o.

which carry the bolting-cloth are extended Dare a series of stelliform-shaped supports,

preferably sawed out-from boards and. secured to the shaft A, for the purpose of `supporting, i

the buckets, and as many of these supports Y may be employed as are necessary, preferaf bly at equal distances apart upon the shaft.

"E are aseries of buckets, made in the form shown and secured to fthe faces of thefstelli- 7: z

form disks and extending! lengthwise of the reel." What may be termed the door or bottom a-of cach, of thesebuckets is made iuan obtuseVshape to fit the face ofthe 7 Y disks,while the side wall'b, projects 'outwardly'r '75 into proximity to the boltingcloth at suchank angle that it readily catches the' chop on the ascending side and becomes a detiector on the descending side.

The chop/entering.l at oneend of the ree]',in y8o the usual manner, is, on falling to the-bottom of the reel,carried up on the ascendingrside y of the bolting-cloth until the force ofgravity compels it to slide back again, `when the'buck#v ets,which are in close proximitythereto,catch f it and carry it `in the furtherrotation 'of the device toward the descendingsidqwhere the 'Y chop is directedby the peculiarshapexand y' formation of the bottom and, sides of [said buckets to fall quickly against the descending/9o again by sliding over the cloth 'ori the Idescending sideof the reel. Thus the intended action of bolting is made to take place over the'larger and the capacity of the reel is greatly increased thereby. f

side of the bolting-'cloth and reach the bottom Y vportion of the insideface of the honing-cloth, 93

'By adopting the construction shownand dei l scribedit will be seen that the six-ribbed reel iny ordinary yuse canbe readilytransform'ed into my 'improved reel, as the 'changes arerefv stricted to the bolting-cylinder alonehand are `y carried out by such simple and efficient means disks D, and buckets E, the parts being conthat the expense is but small vcompared with structed, arranged, and operating subst-anlo the price oli new machines of this class found tially as and for the purposes set forth. in the mar et.

What I claim as my invention is BRUNO KNIFFLER In a Hour-dressing machine, the oombina- Witnesses: tion of the following elements: shaft A, radi- F. C. MCMILLIN, ally-located lag-screws B, bolting cloth O, FRANK C. FRIEND. 

